Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

there is no -H flag, Using an un-known flag triggers an error condition, which 
causes PHP to only show the available list of flags and not execute the script.

Hi,

The -H flag does exist, and is documented.

http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.options.php

 -H               Hide any passed arguments from external tools.

Regards,

besides the fact that this affects also 5.4.13 and there is a -H flag
i had yesterday the same problem in CLI-scripts with using __DIR__ and __FILE__ inside of __construct() which i can not really reproduce with my sample code below and it did only happen in CLI mode

workaround because i get the same info with the class-name BUT a workaround:
FAILED: $this->module_basedir = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
WORKED: $this->module_basedir = substr(__CLASS__, 3);


[harry@rh:~]$ php --help | grep Hide
 -H Hide any passed arguments from external tools
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[wwwcron@rh:~]$ umask 006; nice -n 19 ionice -c 3 php -H /www/beta.rhsoft.net/classloader/index.php

Warning: require(/modules/test/api_test.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in  on line 8

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/modules/test/api_test.php' (include_path='.:/Volumes/dune/www-servers/phpincludes:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in  on line 8
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[wwwcron@rh:~]$ umask 006; nice -n 19 ionice -c 3 php /www/beta.rhsoft.net/classloader/index.php
DIRNAME: /mnt/data/www/beta.rhsoft.net/classloader/modules/test  test
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SAMPLE CODE:

[harry@rh:/www/beta.rhsoft.net/classloader]$ cat index.php 
<?php
 $cl_api = new api_class();
 echo $cl_api->test->test('test');
 class api_class
 {
  public function __get($subclass)
  {
   require(__DIR__ . '/modules/' . $subclass . '/api_' . $subclass . '.php');
   $class_name = 'cl_' . $subclass;
   $this->$subclass = new $class_name();
   return $this->$subclass;
  }
 }
?>

[harry@rh:/www/beta.rhsoft.net/classloader]$ cat modules/test/api_test.php 
<?php
 class cl_test
 {
  public $cl_api;
  public function __construct()
  {
   $this->cl_api = &$GLOBALS['cl_api'];
   echo 'DIRNAME: ' . dirname(__FILE__) . '  ';
  }

  public function test($input_value)
  {
   return $input_value;
  }
 }
?>

so this is now 2 years old and the only repsonse about -H switch doe snot exists is simply bogus